Communism

Tea Party leader: "I don't hate Obama because he's black. I hate him because he's red"

Bill Whittle, the self-proclaimed "virtual president" of the Tea Party movement, was invited up to Bemidji by the Northern Minnesota Tea Party Patriots to give a speech Saturday.SEE ALSO: Michele Bachmann: Contraception mandate step toward one-child policy [VIDEO] If the roughly 100 attendees at a c ... More >>

History Lounge: The 1950s Sitcom - Guide to American Life

Laura Ingalls Wilder worshipper running for Minneapolis mayor

There's a new character throwing his hat in the ring to be the next Minneapolis mayor. And he thinks Laura Ingalls Wilder is God.

Make it a date: Armatage Room

Southern Theater's Animal Farm presents a barnyard of lessons

A staging of Orwell's classic is uncomfortable but necessary

Need reasons to be suspicious of Ritchie? We've got 'em.

Around the World in a Thousand Words

This year's Cannes Film Festival offered treasures from Russia, Mexico, Romania, and China

The Shelf Life of Socialism

Inside a Leninist bookstore in West St. Paul, a familiar refrain: What is to be done?

"Something about that song haunts you"

Time to dust off that Jungian blank-verse musical

Known associate of disgraced priest slanders lesbian playwright

Exile on Stalinallee

He started out as a Grade-B Ricky Nelson; He ended up as an American revolutionary

Punsters of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your shame.

Spotlight: Propaganda for the Converted

Shotgun wedding between Brecht and Eliot leads to challenging honeymoon

Gorbachev: Time for perestroika in US

Jean Arp and Karl Marx discuss the iPod

A Horse of a Different Color

Politics and aesthetics collide at the Museum of Russian Art

Minneapolis: city of average taxes

The Empire Strikes Back

What do you do after writing the most popular leftist mindscrew of the decade? A sequel.

The Prisoner

How to eat fried rats, and other peasant survival tips from the Korean War

Skin Trade

Brezhnev's blow job, written in flesh

Better Red Than Misled

'Morning Sun' sheds light on China's revolutionary red guard

Real Life Rock Top Ten

The old, the tired, the rejuvenated, and the dead

Adama: Turki al-Hamad

Last Exit To Tallinn

A Swedish director goes slumming in the former Soviet Union

How The Other Half-Billion Live

Expelling the proletariat from China's workers' paradise

Better Dead Than Red

Novelist Ken Kalfus performs an autopsy on the Soviet state; Wendell Steavenson has Georgia on her mind

The Red and The Black

Chris Marker dissects the corpse of the Sixties revolutions

Empty Cabinets

Simon Norfolk talks about genocide, landscape, and beauty

Returning to Earth

The Road Home leads director Zhang Yimou back where he started

A World Atop the Ruins

Buffoons on the ground, dictators in space: Emmanuel Dongala and the tragicomedy of Congo

Second Coming

With divine performances and kooky cosmology, the second part of Angels in America descends on the Pillsbury House Theatre

Salt of the Earth

With The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Pier Paolo Pasolini likened the Messiah's sacred flock to the lumpen proletariat

Bride of Frankenstein

Anchee Min's novel Becoming Madame Mao puts a human face on a historical monster

Little Red Book

Life of the Party

Death in the mines. Hunger marches. An FBI spy on every block. Minnesota's daughters of the revolution can tell you about it all. But first, have some coffee cake.

The Red News Diaries

A new cable movie revisits the radical romance of Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman

Send in the Clowns

You hate them. You fear them. Now, get to know your local clowns.

Norse by Midwest

This weekend's Nordic Roots Festival unearths connections to the Old World

Imperial Shadows

Oak Street's series of '30s-era Chinese films proves again that social turmoil can inspire great cinema

J. Hoberman: The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism

Victor Pelevin: Werewolf Problem in Central Russia

Thomas Brussig: Heroes Like Us

Puppet Regime

"The people at the Ordway who sponsored this show are very stupid and innocent.": Vietnamese Americans picket the Thang Long Water Puppet Theater.

Red Diapers, Down Under

Children of the Revolution

The Proposed Twins Park: Stadium or Ball Mall?

Take Me Out to the Strip Mall...

Rock It To Russia

Like many things in the former Soviet Union, rock & roll ain't what it used to be.